In the half century since Ed Thorp published Beat the Dealer, dozens of card counting systems have been developed and promoted. Any numbers nerd with a simulator and a couch can sit there and spit out card counting systems, complete with all the technical mumbo jumbo about the method of index generation, the true-count conversion, […]
Posts tagged Beat the Dealer
Those Damned Books
I started playing poker very young. I remember seeking out books that would help me improve, but back then I was pretty much limited to people like Oswald Jacoby and Herbert O. Yardley. I got to Vegas in 1980 and started playing seriously. In discussions with some of the old timers, one of their criterion […]
Guest Post: A Review of Ed Thorp’s New Bo...
Since we opened GamblingWithAnEdge.com a couple of months ago, we’ve fielded multiple requests from players and writers to post. After thinking through several options, we’ve decided to use my space for “guest bloggers.” Sometimes these posts will be slightly off subject, but they’ll always have at least some relevance and the poster will be introduced […]
Darryl Purpose interview
This interview originally appeared in Blackjack Forum in 2003. The Performer Darryl Purpose is a battle-scarred veteran of the Blackjack Wars. He moved to Las Vegas at 19, and learned just enough about counting cards to lose all his money. He says, “I was the kind of counter that made Las Vegas.” He went […]
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